The Borden Threshermen鈥檚 Club were busy on Friday, Sept. 16, bindering and loading the sheaves on to hayracks. The McCormick Deering binder was pulled by Dave and Helene How鈥檚 1937 John Deere B tractor and operated by Dave, while Cyril Saunders manned the controls on the binder.
聽Since the sheaves were very dry, they didn鈥檛 need to stook them, so, with Mel Brook pulling the hay racks with his truck, Stew Walton, John Buswell and Ruben Rempel pitched the bundles onto the rack. In the nearby field, Lucas Saunders was busily combining the field where the parking takes place.
These endeavours are all in preparation for Borden鈥檚 annual Threshing Day coming up on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the site two miles north of the Borden Cemetery. Gates open at 10 a.m. and a cook car is open before noon. There is a parade at noon and threshing and demonstrations to follow. The roast beef supper by lantern light is at the Borden Community Centre at 5 p.m. and tickets will be on sale in the seniors鈥� room at 4 p.m.
The museum members are judging the largest cabbages and beets Friday night at the hall and the winning entries will be on display in the seniors鈥� room. The museum will also have a 50/50 draw that evening.
Sept. 16, Audrey Baker had her new modular home arrive in Borden and after some maneuvering, it was finally backed into the lot across from the Borden Care Home. There it was placed on a bed of tamped gravel, with the garage being built and the sewer and water dug in last week. Audrey sold her house a few weeks ago and has to be out by Sept. 21, so everything came in quite quickly.
The Borden Friendship Club held its first meeting after the summer break Sept. 14. Since the last week of September is Seniors鈥� Week, Affinity Credit Union at Borden is donating the donuts for the potluck supper Sept. 28. These will be served with ice cream instead of cake for the birthdays and entertainment for the evening will be Terry Pugh.
The club set its Harvest Tea and Bake Sale for Oct. 19 at 2 p.m., the Christmas supper was set for Dec. 7 or 8 depending on the entertainment and the bingo dates were set starting Nov. 16 and Dec. 14. In 2017, bingo will be the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. The club is using the bingo account money to partly pay for 33 members to attend the Langham dinner theatre in October.
If there is no Wednesday afternoon bowling, then the meeting time will go back to 2 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month. The birthday cakes for each month, starting in December, will be baked and decorated by Eileen Petrun, which the club will pay for and the ice cream is being donated by Bev Assman each month.
聽Artist of the month is Anna Elliot and the room has been tastefully decorated for the fall season thanks to the decorating committee. Thanks also to Ed Neufeld and Gary Palmer for all their work when the floor was re-varnished and all the contents had to be moved out of the room, then brought back in after a week or so.
Saturday, Sept. 17 was a busy day at the Borden Community Centre, as Living Books were holding their distributor鈥檚 event in the Norman Smith Room downstairs featuring a catered noon meal. RiverBend United Church Presbytery were holding a meeting in the seniors鈥� room, with the Borden United Church catering a noon lunch and coffee. Later in the day, a wedding reception was in the main hall for Tristan Saunders and Carlye Gwin, who were married in Borden St. John鈥檚 Anglican Church in the afternoon, with Rev. Alex Parsons officiating.
